Posted on 03/13/2014 7:38:46 PM PDT by gooblah
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- A Malaysia Airlines plane sent signals to a satellite for four hours after the aircraft went missing, an indication that it was still flying for hundreds of miles or more, a U.S. official briefed on the search said Thursday.
Six days after the plane with 239 people aboard disappeared, Malaysian authorities expanded their search westward toward India, saying the aircraft may have flown for several hours after its last contact with the ground shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.
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If the fuel loading was accurate. One guy in the ground could easily load more fuel. If that happened the pilots were in on it - whatever it is.
I've googled it, and I've come up with nothing.
The wings-level, sea-level stall speed is typically close to 137 knots, apparently.
Not without going awful close to the Indian coast. Indian radar would have picked it up. The range is limited. It couldn’t fly just anywhere.
777 yards. Obviously.
Thats the big mystery. But if one of the pilots decided to turn all the transponders off, take a left turn, and fly off into the middle of the Indian Ocean.... good luck finding it. Its and awful big ocean. Thats my guess by the way (if i have to make one). One pilot incapacitates the other, and off into the wild blue yonder they go.
Some of the crew may have been involved, too. Passengers may not have known they were hijacked until it was too late.
If it was hijacked and landed, the passengeers were not part of the plan. They were either killed or made to jump out of the plane over the Indian ocean.
If a hijacking, I’m betting that automatic weapons were smuggled on board. No boxcutters this time.
We need to find this plane.
You....are joking...?
Relatively easy to incapacitate over 200 passengers??? How exactly? The only hijacking scenario i can think of is if one of the pilots does it by taking out the other with no one knowing. They’re flying in the middle of the night, and none of the passengers really know anything is wrong.
Given the number of claims that have been made and later denied regarding this flight do we really know how much fuel it was carrying? It is certainly possible to load a 777 with enough for a much longer flight. Has anyone actually checked the records at KL and if they have, can those records be trusted? After the Malaysians had piously claimed they were checking all possibilities they are now denying searching the pilot and copilot's homes. If this was a planned crew-jacking, as now seems possible, might co-conspirator(s) in the ground crew have loaded more fuel than needed for the official flight plan? That might be the easiest lead to follow.
Under the radar, im talking
depends on if it is fully loaded....but it the takeoff length of a runway is always longer than the landing length. I’d guess about 8,000 feet as a minimum to land one. You need about 12000 feet to take off fully loaded.
How do you “make passengers jump out of a plane over the Indian Ocean”??? Just tell them to line up and jump? You don’t think over 200 passengers are going to fight back??? Sheeeesh.
speculation and theories that have NO verifiable data. Unnamed sources from unnamed ‘agencies’ are meaningless.
For whatever else we know of this we can be sure...1) there is a plane missing and 2)it will not end well
I fear the final destination will be Israel.
I assume there is access to the ventilation system through avionics. You don’t think the pilots could smuggle gas masks and knockout gas grenades on board? That is what I’d do if I was trying to hijack it.
People who don’t know where something’s at send out search party’s of 40-50 ships and 40-50 aircraft to search. Someone knows exactly where something’s at sends out one ship. The US Navy sent one ship there today.
Do you think they could make it to Somalia? Then fly over Saudia Arabia or the Gulf and into Israeli air-space?
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